I really love that last line
"If we continually need to check if what we did yesterday is still valid, it doesn't give us much opportunity to work for tomorrow."
The only downside I see to one of our automated payments is that it becomes too automated and often forgotten about. My wife and I have monthly donating supporting a child and her mother (the father abandoned them) through a program called children international. This program focuses on a single donor to a single-family meaning that what we give goes directly to them to not an entire organization (although parts of it go into a larger fund to support those without a sponsor yet)
One of the things I like about this is that we can write personally to the families and they can write to us. Sadly with automated payments, I often forget to write, and a process that is supposed to be about giving and support turn into that extra bill again.
I want to at least keep that automatic payment at the forefront of my mind so as to keep them real (as they are) the rest of the auto payments.... forgetaboutit... :-)
By the way, it's an honor to have you start a post with my reply, thanks much.
This is a problem with any automation, more so with any default behaviors. I think a lot of subscription services are like this, people don't use them but they are still debited monthly.
For the things we really care about performing, I think it is important to set schedule reminders and following through consistently. It is like anything that one wants to make a habit.
=) You are welcome
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